The heartbreak over his loss is made more profound by the sadness in knowing he joins two other men from the same firehouse who were also laid to rest because of 9/11 related cancer, Firefighter Sean McCarthy and Lieutenant Keith Loughlin.
Out of thousands there were three or four misidentifications, including the odd case of two firefighters from the same firehouse with the same anomaly in the same neck vertebra.
Here is what he said, as best as I can remember: "A fireman from the same firehouse goes with me.
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But now he walks four blocks from his apartment to the firehouse and has his studio and his home in the same location.
The companies would use reserve fire trucks and would double up in firehouses, serving as the backup company in cases where two emergencies occurred in the same area.
More recently, a 2009 fire on the same street as the firehouse destroyed a storefront building with several apartments above.
The men belonged to Engine Company 54, part of a firehouse in Midtown Manhattan, and both had the same unusual condition in which adjacent neck vertebrae had similar congenital flaws.
